Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Popular CulturePaul Mason Willan, 2006 - 240 páginas This book turns on the television, opens the newspaper, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture, investigating the regimes of penal representation and how they may contribute to a populist and punitive criminological imagination. It places media discourse in prisons firmly within the arena of penal policy and public opinion, suggesting that while Bad Girls, The Shawshank Redemption, internet jail cams, advertising and debates about televising executions continue to ebb and flow in contemporary culture, the persistence of this spectacle of punishment - its contested meaning and its politics of representation - demands investigation. Alongside chapters addressing the construction of popular images of prison and the death penalty in television and film, Captured by the Media also has contributions from prison reform groups and prison practitioners which discuss forms of media intervention in penal debate. This book provides a highly readable exploration of media discourse on prisons and punishment, and its relationship to public attitudes and government penal policy. At the same time it engages with the 'cultural turn' within criminology and offers an original contribution to discussion of the relationship between prison, public and the state. It will be essential reading for students in both media studies and criminology as well as practitioners and commentators in these fields. |
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... involvement in the criminal justice system . There are a number of reasons for supposing that the ' seeing is believing ' inherent in involvement will not only help to inform and influence attitudes , but might bring about a more ...
... involvement in the criminal justice system . There are a number of reasons for supposing that the ' seeing is believing ' inherent in involvement will not only help to inform and influence attitudes , but might bring about a more ...
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... involved in direct work with offenders in one way or another the better . Encouraging such involvement has been the aim of a further strand of work conducted by the RCP but is beyond the scope of this chapter . References Bingham , LCJ ...
... involved in direct work with offenders in one way or another the better . Encouraging such involvement has been the aim of a further strand of work conducted by the RCP but is beyond the scope of this chapter . References Bingham , LCJ ...
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... involved in state killing , and did much to ensure that the integrity of the institution , if not the method , remained intact . The altogether more critical tone adopted in the reporting of Medina's execution cautions against seeking ...
... involved in state killing , and did much to ensure that the integrity of the institution , if not the method , remained intact . The altogether more critical tone adopted in the reporting of Medina's execution cautions against seeking ...
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The function of fiction for a punitive public | 16 |
Red tops populists and the irresistible rise of | 31 |
a view from both sides of | 48 |
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